Re: [ft] changing the depth of gray for anti-aliasing

[Miles Bader]

address@hidden (Peter Grandi) writes:
> I suspect so because it struck me how changing the monitor gamma
> changes the relative weight of monochrome and anti-aliased glyphs;
> perhaps it is inaccurate, but I would say that the stencils produced
> by Freetype2 seem (inadvertently) designed for gamma 1.6 canvases.

I think it's a mistake to think of gamma as some sort of knob you can
tweak for design purposes.  It's not.  It's something you use to
properly encode the output to match the output encoding you use to
talk to the end device.

If there are non-linear calculations to be done in some cases (I
dunno), they shouldn't be conflated with gamma-correction, they should
be done explicitly in linear intensity space before gamma-correction
is ever done.

-miles

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